Hello, guys! If you are looking for free hosting space, Flickr is a great place to start (and, it's free!). Once you have an account, you can embed Flickr-hosted images here in our forums. Also, be sure to join the Wetpixel Flickr group!

Here's how to embed:

1. look at an image in Flickr, and click "All Sizes" to get to a page that shows all of the accessible sizes for a given image.

2. click on "Medium" (500 x 333), which is perfect for Wetpixel

3. in the text box below the photo, you'll see some HTML, which is the code they want you to use to embed your image. Here's an example:

4. since our forums don't support straight HTML, you have to convert it to bbcode. take the image location (img src) and hyperlink (a href), and convert them. Here's an example of the above image, converted into bbcode:

One thing I ran into was that if you host the images off your own site, then you can replace them at any time and the images on WetPixel will also be updated (like if you made an improvement to an image you had posted and wanted the changes reflected on WetPixel automatically).

So, just a tip for Flickr users that you cannot update (replace) your images with the free account. To replace an image with a new version, you have to have a Pro account with Flickr and then you can do it. Well worth the small fee.

On a related topic, have people been having problems with flickr not serving images? A number of people have reported to me that my images are "Unavailable". It seems to resolve itself after a while, but it is problematic.

At the bottom, this will give you the url for that photo. Now copy that entire text box.

Now back in your post on Wetpixel, select more options below the response box. Now click on the Icon that looks like a tree (if you mouse over it, it will say "insert image"). Now in the popup dialog box, paste the entire url of the photo there. Make sure you don't type "http" twice...
Hope that helps.

Looks like there was an extra space in there. I did that for readability in the code section, but it apparently doesn't work when it's there. Give it a try again without the space between the URL and IMG tags.

You know - i'm pretty sick of all song that such as you sing to Flickr... You just listen - now it's the best way to start !...that's last drop - HOW COULD IT BE the best way to start if there are a lot of more simple and easy hosts ? for example this free photo hosting. New user first of all want to be host as simple as possible, easy to use - kill me , but anyway not flickr.